This guide from Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP(R)) covers safeguards that can be implemented in hospitality businesses today, tips on how to continuously improve security and data regulation compliance.

HFTP GDPR Guidelines: Privacy Policies for Hotels

This document offers points to consider in the development of a hotel’s privacy policy. In view of the multiple organisational and legal structures under which hotels operate, as well as the complexity of the third party landscape that may be part of the complete guest experience, this document serves as a guideline only.

HFTP GDPR Guidelines: Hospitality Guest Registration Cards

This document offers recommendations for guest information collection on the guest registration card along with consent for use. It can be used as a guideline for loyalty cards, health data, export of data outside of the EU, privacy policies and direct marketing.

Marriott International is on track to have the tallest hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria, under its eponymous brand when the property opens in 2020. The site will be the first for the company in the capital, and comes as the country’s profile as a holiday destination is in the ascendancy and the government works to upgrade the room stock.

Hotel asset managers bring a unique perspective and understanding of how to optimize performance and achieve investment objectives—one that’s based on observation and close collaboration with a full spectrum of brand and third-party operators across a multitude of scenarios (brand, market, property type, economic cycle). While we have learned many lessons and adopted a wide range of best practices over the past two decades with over 400 hotels matriculating through our asset management portfolio, we have identified five key considerations for hotel owners looking to optimize profitability, specifically though a third-party operating model.

Hilton plans to cut its environmental footprint in half and double its social impact investment by 2030. With this commitment, Hilton will institute science-based targets to reduce carbon emissions and send zero soap to landfills.

Across the street from The Palm restaurant and across the bay from the Bal Harbour Shops is the Grand Beach Hotel Bay Harbor. Its position, between a carnivore’s bliss and a temple to the monied set, embodies the northern reaches of Miami Beach: relaxed, well heeled, traditional.

Members of Unite Here’s Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 have voted to authorize a citywide strike in Las Vegas. Two voting sessions were held on May 22, and according to Unite Here, 99 percent of the two unions' 25,000 Las Vegas members voted in favor of the strike.

Mitchell Hochberg, the president of Lightstone, is putting his company’s stamp on New York, with a host of developments that reach into multiple real-estate classes. With four Moxy hotels open or under development in the city, the developer is now on the prowl for further growth. We talked to him about what that expansion looks like and how the limited-service model has changed.

As the United States hotel industry heads into the latter half of the year and into 2019, the forecast for average-daily-rate growth remains steady. But revenue-per-available-room growth will become more important as hotels continue to feel pressure from rising insurance costs, labor costs and other expenses, according to PwC’s May Hospitality Directions US and its most recent updated lodging outlook.

Israel is one of the oldest countries and civilizations in the world, dating back 3,500 years. Beyond the country’s cultural and religious importance is a traveler’s paradise with access to cosmopolitan cities, beachside resort towns and more.

CConcord Hospitality will welcome AC Hotel New York Downtown in the financial district to their portfolio in summer 2018. Construction is underway at the 274-room hotel under the direction real estate firm LCRE Partners.

Data Travel has unveiled a data streaming, integration and enrichment platform designed for the hotel industry’s data-management challenges. Named HAPI (hospitality API), the new platform aggregates the plethora of data that is collected by disparate hotel systems and acts as a central hub for these data streams.

Domestic and international hotel brand management firm HMG Hospitality added Ruth Ormsby to the company’s team of hotel professionals. As VP of development, Ormsby is positioned to expand the company’s roster of national hotel clients by focusing on the team’s proficiency at applying in-depth local market intelligence to major hotels’ brand marketing and property management.